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20 by John Edgar Wideman
epub |eng | | Author:John Edgar Wideman

1988 UNCLE MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE Reginald McKnight Idi, my very best friend here in Senegal, was suffering from a very strange eye malady. He didn't know precisely what had caused his ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 21,2015 )
Polar Wives by Kari Herbert
epub |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:Kari Herbert

12. Eva Nansen | A Man in a Million Poor him, he will come too late. —EVA NANSEN On October 10, 1893, Fridtjof Nansen came down with a fever. Confined ...
( Category: Winter Sports March 21,2015 )
The Life and Times of Mary Lou (Stage) Huffman by Huffman Marshall
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-12 | Author:Huffman, Marshall [Huffman, Marshall]

THE BEGINNING OF THE END Debby and Jerry invited us to go to Niagara Falls on vacation. It was a wonderful trip and so beautiful. However, Claude began to get ...
( Category: Women March 21,2015 )
Nine and a Half Weeks by Elizabeth McNeill
epub |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Elizabeth McNeill

Chapter 19 Sometimes I wondered abstractly how it was possible that pain could be this exciting. Once during that time I stubbed my toe, in sandals, on my bottom desk ...
( Category: Women March 21,2015 )
Gotti's Rules by George Anastasia
epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:George Anastasia [Anastasia, George]

CHAPTER 11 There’s a great but often overlooked line in The Godfather when Michael first meets Apollonia while strolling the Sicilian countryside. His bodyguards, two hit men who have sawed-off ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 10,2015 )
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven: A Memoir by Susan Jane Gilman
epub |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Susan Jane Gilman [Gilman, Susan Jane]

——— Back at the hotel, Claire was gone. All our belongings were gone. Our room had been vacated, the beds stripped, though the door remained ajar and the lightbulbs still ...
( Category: General March 9,2015 )
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sarah Turnbull [Turnbull, Sarah]

Me: ‘Three. Anyway, I’d just rather stay in Paris.’ Frédéric: ‘But weekends are for leaving Paris!’ Me (insistent): ‘What’s wrong with you going alone?’ Frédéric (tired voice): ‘You know how ...
( Category: Travel March 4,2015 )
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Colley Linda
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Colley, Linda. [Colley, Linda]

‘A View of the Town of Rio Janeiro’. Pencil drawing by Alexander Buchan, 1768. Because of the bad weather it had suffered, and of not being able to refit and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
One Small Boat by Kathy Harrison
epub |eng | | Author:Kathy Harrison

Seven The sounds of shouting and crashing blocks streamed through the front door of the Children’s Clinic. Every Monday afternoon I brought Daisy there to meet with her therapist, Toni, ...
( Category: Women March 4,2015 )
The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race by Sara Barron
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Sara Barron [Barron, Sara]

WHERE WAS IT all coming from? Such boldness! Such aggression! I guess my recent exposure to so much articulately expressed female anger had had its positive effect. And now here ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2015 )
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter by Pearl Cleage
epub |eng | | Author:Pearl Cleage

JULY 24, 1979 “I am getting ready to go to the West Coast to make a movie,” I say to my mother. “I don’t want to fly, but I can ...
( Category: Authors March 4,2015 )
Grace and Grit by Lilly Ledbetter
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Lilly Ledbetter [Ledbetter, Lilly]

CHAPTER 7 Holding the Tiger by the Tail Tiger, Tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? —WILLIAM BLAKE ...
( Category: Sociology March 4,2015 )
The Widow Clicquot (P.S.) by Mazzeo Tilar J
mobi |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Mazzeo, Tilar J. [Mazzeo, Tilar J.]

After her stunning coup in Russia, Barbe-Nicole discovered that she had a new set of problems. Increasingly, it was production that worried her. With Louis in Saint Petersburg capitalizing on ...
( Category: France March 4,2015 )
The Widow Clicquot by Tilar J. Mazzeo
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Tilar J. Mazzeo [Mazzeo, Tilar J.]

After her stunning coup in Russia, Barbe-Nicole discovered that she had a new set of problems. Increasingly, it was production that worried her. With Louis in Saint Petersburg capitalizing on ...
( Category: France March 4,2015 )
The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters With the Human Race by Sara Barron
mobi |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Sara Barron

WHERE WAS IT all coming from? Such boldness! Such aggression! I guess my recent exposure to so much articulately expressed female anger had had its positive effect. And now here ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2015 )

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